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Detoxing from alcohol isn't a fun ride. But it gets incrementally easier! When I quit alcohol I lamented that I'd never feel "free" or "happy" again, I was sad that I would be missing out on the social aspects of it. As time wore on, it's weird that once you get into serious drinking your entire life begins to revolve around it. Had a bad day? Drink. Had a good day? Drink. Want to take a vacation? Well it better be a place where I can drink! After about 6 months I began to realize how much of an addiction it really was. At that time too, I was like "whelp I'm clean now - maybe 1 or 2 here and there couldn't hurt" so I tried that tactic a couple ties, and you know - it wasn't hard, but then I realized after those drinks I would think about it again, and I'd want to do it more. So I quit for good - or else I would fall back down that rabbit hole.
Quitting drinking was the best thing I ever did for myself. I know how much it sucks in the beginning, but it is so worth it.
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass 
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